Paul met April Rai, CEO of COMTO (Conference of Minority Transportation Officials) at the recent COMTO conference in Miami. He sat down with April to talk about the origins of COMTO, the challenges transit is facing today, and her vision for how we'll solve them.

On Transit Unplugged News and Views this week we also have:

• Transit news of the week
• Elea Carey's messaging minute
• Mike Bismeyer on leadership
• Updates from Paul about his latest book about diversity and inclusion in transit

Next week on Transit Unplugged In-Depth our guest will be Monica Backmon, CEO of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.

We'd like to thank all our listeners who nominated us for a Podcast Award; we made the cut! Transit Unplugged is in the voting round and we'll hear the results in September.

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